Guy Boothby | First Editions

1867 - 1905

Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. Although an Australian national, he lived the majority of his life in England. Boothby is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind; the character was a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was a personal friend and mentor of Boothby's, and George Orwell cites Boothby's books as influential, and remembered with affection.

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London: John Long, n.d. [1907]. NEW EDITION, second overall. Octavo, pp.126 [2]. In publisher's illustrated paper covers. Browned, as expected; near-fine. A rare survival. First published in 1905. More

London, Ward Lock. 1902. First Edition. 8vo. 315pp + 2pp ads. Publisher's gilt titled dark blue cloth, decorated in green and gilt with a striking (pardon the pun) design of a rather irate looking rattlesnake. Ink ownership to half title. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and... More

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